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In other news: 11 March: A review finds that the Amazon basin currently emits more greenhouse gases than it absorbs overall.[204]
by The_rationalist 5y ago
In other news:
11 March: A review finds that the Amazon basin currently emits more greenhouse gases than it absorbs overall.[204]
- icoder 5y agoClarification as I totally misunderstood your comment (possibly due to not knowing the relevance of the term basin here): The BBC article covering this article describes this as being caused by deforrestation / dying trees. Part of the Anazon rainforrest is still a carbon sink and as a whole it is as well. But for how long? Note that the scientific paper (at least at the time of the BBC article) is yet to be published.
- bpodgursky 5y agoI would not expect any steady-state forest to be a net carbon remover. But it is a large sink.